History

Local Administrative Units, II, 463, 465, gives separation date as 1772 and 1722. However, here following Bishop Gastrell's notes. This also gives 1602 as earliest firm date for the chapelry: 'This chapel was erected An. 1602 as far as can be collected from some figures inserted on several parts of the wall and timber bearing that date. The Cumbria Parishes, 1714-1725 from Bishop Gastrell's Notitia with additions by Bishop Porteus, 1778-1779, ed. L.A.S. Butler, Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, vol. 12 (1998), 117.